Ferrari F430 Wallpapers July 7, 2009
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The Ferrari F430 is a sports car produced by the Italian automaker Ferrari as a successor to the 360 from 2004 to 2009. It debuted at the 2004 Paris Motor Show.
The F430’s all-aluminum chassis was produced in partnership with Alcoa and is virtually identical to that of the previous model, the Ferrari 360. In the F430 it has been slightly re-worked and improved with extra stiffening beams around the floor pan. The car shares parts with the 360, including the roof, doors, front windshield, and passenger compartment-to-engine glass. Internally, both cars are referred to with the same model number (F131), although the F430 has the Evoluzione tag attached to show that it features some major changes. Internally, the car is simply known as the “Evo“. On May 12, 2009, Ferrari announced a one off F430 painted silver and gold to help with the Earthquake relief in Italy. This F430 will be the last F430. It will be replaced by the all new F450.
The MSRP for a Ferrari F430 is $168,005 to $227,000 in the United States, £118,500 in the United Kingdom, approximately €175,000 in the European Union and $389,000 for the base model to $450,000 for the Spider F1 Sequential in Australia.
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Car and Driver magazine found the car’s performance worthy of the Ferrari heritage, and recorded a 3.5 sec 0–60 mph acceleration run in the F430 This makes it the third-quickest Ferrari road car ever made, following the Enzo and the 599 GTB. That being said, the 3.5 second 0–60 mph run was made on a European spec car, which has launch control, a feature designed to help launch the car from a standing start at high RPMs. Much like the E-Diff and the manettino, the launch control is a technology borrowed from Ferrari’s Formula 1 racing program.The launch control is unavailable in U.S.-spec F430s, presumably due to liability issues. The U.S.-spec F430 can do 0–60 mph in 3.6 seconds.
On the BBC Top Gear TV show, shown on the 17 July 2005, The Stig achieved a Power Lap time of 1:22.9. While the laptime was 0.89 seconds less than a Lamborghini Murciélago, the F430 was slower than the 360 Challenge Stradale at 1:22.3. The slower lap was blamed on the F430’s Bridgestone tires supposedly having less grip than the Challenge Stradale’s Pirellis.
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson has commented on the F430’s handling being absolutely brilliant, a marked improvement over the 360; he claimed that the Ferrari holds the road so well that “even the most butter-fingered, incapable driver could drive the F430 around their test track only one second slower than the most skilled test driver.” He has in fact proclaimed, on more than one occasion, that the Ferrari F430 is “just about the best car I’ve ever driven”, a status he previously attributed to the F355 (but never the 360).
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